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1936
1936 - 0041.PDF
JANUARY 2, 1936. FLIGHT. FROM the CLUBS Events and Activity at the Clubs and Schools 19 Private Flying C.A.S.C. Twenty-four members attended at Fen Ditton on December 22, and fifteen of them put in five hours' dual and 3J hours' solo. BORDER Six soloists are gaining the experience necessary for " A " licences. Up to December 20, 31 hr. 20 min. flying had been recorded during the month. LANCASHIRE The Club's flying time suffered from the inclemency of the weather during the week ending December iS, but a certain amount of instructional and solo flying was done. Miss J. P. Denton, and Messrs. Brown, Gibson, Herbert, Wilton and Tyson became members. YORKSHIRE Club aircraft flew 14 hr, 45 min. during the week ending December 21 in spite of a snow-covered aerodrome and extremely cold weather. Mr. H. Priestley, a pupil of the Air League Young Pilots' Fund, went solo, and Mr. J. Nixon, an Aviation Group member, passed his " A " licence tests. The Praga Baby visited Yeadon on December 18. BROOKLANDS A new member, Mr. M. V. Bertram, late R.A.F., joined the other week and put in the time necessary for an " A " licence in order that he might proceed on a flying honeymoon. Mr. Donaldson, an instructor of the Northampton Club, arrived by road, complete with a pair of pupils, and gave instruction at Brooklands as weather was unfit at his own aerodrome. The Tramps Party is best described as a howling success. KARACHI A total of 178 hr. 50 min. flying was recorded by the Karachi Club during November. Five members were being trained during that month for their " B " licences, two for their " A-i," and one for his " A " licence. Mr. F. Sequeira has passed trfe technical examinations for his " B " licence, and Mr. K. J. Thouless, Director of Post; and Telegraphs, Sind and Baluchistan, has qualified for his " A " licence. Mr. N. G. Gadgil, and Mr. S. G. Pathak, who were trained by the Club,'have been engaged by Tatas as pilot and ground engineer respectively. CINQUE PORTS Flying time was greatly reduced during the week ending Decem ber 22 by an almost daily visitation of fog and low cloud. While this made the Club rather quiet, the airport itself had several days of almost feverish activity. Mr. Dupe dealt most efficiently with the passengers and crews of two Rapides, two Douglases, an H.P. 42, a brace of Junkers, four D.H. 86's, a Wibault and a Fokker, which all arrived in one day because there was fog at Croydon. The Christinas Dance was held at the Leas Cliff Hall, and Mr. Georges Seversky came from Paris by Imperial Airways and entertained with some of his songs. SCOTTISH During December, 115 hr. 35 min. flying was recorded. Although no " A " licences were obtained, there are quite a number of pupils well on their way towards them. RANGOON Due to tiie absence of the chief instructor in connection with the inspection of the new R.A.F. emergency landing grounds in Burma., the flying times for November totalled only 34 hr. 55 min. REDHILL There was one new member during the week ending December 23, and Messrs. R. F. Stone and R. Frost took their blind-flying certifi cates. Flying time was 50 hr. 25 min. During the following week 1he total was 36 hr. 10 min. Mr. D. T. Low made his first solo and Mr. G. G. K. Browne went solo on the Autogiro. The turkey dinner held on Sunday, December 22, was a great success, about seventy members and their friends being present. HANWORTH Mr. T. Wood left Hanworth in Mr. Anson's Rapide for Zurich, carrying Mr. Anson and family, but was unable to get any farther than Paris, owing to the prevalent bad weather. New members of the London Air Park Flying Club are Miss Maclaren and Messrs. Bailey, Hopkinson and Shaw. During the week ending December 28 flying times totalled 12 hr. 10 rriin. Mr. Valentine became a member. CARDIFF On Christmas Day Father Christmas arrived by air to distribute presents to forty children of Club members, and afterwards to a number of poor children of the district. Three davs later a fare well supper was given in the clubhouse to F/O. W. N. L. Cope, the chief instructor, who left at the end of December to take up an appointment with the Bristol Aeroplane Club at their new Reserve Training School at Yatesbury. Flying time for the week ending December 23 was i\ hours. HESTON Flying Officer A. M. Glover is, as already reported in Flight, to join the Airwork School of Flying at the beginning of March, as assistant instructor to Mr. B. A. Davy. It will not be the first time that these two pilots have worked together, for both were in the same flight in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Colonel Toeplitz, formerly on the management of London Film Productions and now running a film business under his own name, heads the list of three first solo flights made at Heston during the week ended December 20. He was introduced to Heston by Capt. E. Trigona, the late Italian Air Attache, who is a flying member of the Airport Club. Other first soloists are Mr. Louis Yeber and Miss Margaret Templeton. A Gipsy VI Falcon is the choice of Mr. A. N. T. Rankin and his wife. Lady Jean Rankin, who have handed in their Leopard Moth in part exchange. They learned to fly—and soloed the same day— at Heston. PRACTICAL PROOF : On December 20 Mr. Robert Kronfeld delivered a B.A.C. Super Drone to Holland and flew well over 200 miles non-stop in the process. He left Hanworth at 10.30, cleared Customs at Croydon and landed eventually at Zierikzee, some twenty miles from Rotterdam. The weather was foggy and cold, but, with the new exhaust-warmed induction system, no trouble was experienced. In this photograph the Super Drone is being demonstrated by Mr. Kronfeld at Schiphol, Amsterdam.
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